In case anyone is interested, Screwfix parts can be linked to directly
using the form:

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/item code

eg: http://www.screwfix.com/prods/17359

This saves a multi-line link and the bother of giving it a tinyurl.

If you add something like http://www.screwfix.com/prods/17359 to your
browser favourites you can visit that link then paste in the desired
item code to get the new short link.

HTH
--
fred
BBC3, ITV2/3/4, channels going to the DOGs

fred wrote:
If you add something like http://www.screwfix.com/prods/17359 to your
browser favourites you can visit that link then paste in the desired
item code to get the new short link.

If you use Firefox, you can go one better. Edit the bookmark, change
Location to http://www.screwfix.com/prods/%s and set Keyword to
something like "sf".

Now you can just type "sf 17359" into the address bar, and it will take
you directly to http://www.screwfix.com/prods/17359

Rich.

On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:16:50 +0100, Richard Skeen wrote:

fred wrote:
If you add something like http://www.screwfix.com/prods/17359 to your
browser favourites you can visit that link then paste in the desired
item code to get the new short link.

If you use Firefox, you can go one better. Edit the bookmark, change
Location to http://www.screwfix.com/prods/%s and set Keyword to
something like "sf".

Now you can just type "sf 17359" into the address bar, and it will take
you directly to http://www.screwfix.com/prods/17359

Rich.

In Opera, click and hold at the end of the prod number, drag the cursor to
the left to select the truncated url, release, R-click - copy.
Although the entire url is selected as soon as you click on the address,
dragging selects only the part dragged across - no need to release the
button and click again.
--
Peter.
The head of a pin will hold more angels if
it's been flattened with an angel-grinder.

In article ,
PeterC wrote:
[sig line]
The head of a pin will hold more angels if
it's been flattened with an angel-grinder.

car body filler will help to keep them there!

John

--
John Mulrooney
NOTE Email address IS correct but might not be checked for a while.

There are 2 true symptoms of dementia; one is forgetting what you are saying, the other is forgetting what you are saying ...

On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:04:09 +0100, JTM wrote:

In article ,
PeterC wrote:
[sig line]
The head of a pin will hold more angels if
it's been flattened with an angel-grinder.

car body filler will help to keep them there!

and WD40 to make their wings shiny.


--
Peter.
The head of a pin will hold more angels if
it's been flattened with an angel-grinder.

In article , PeterC
writes
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:16:50 +0100, Richard Skeen wrote:

fred wrote:
If you add something like http://www.screwfix.com/prods/17359 to your
browser favourites you can visit that link then paste in the desired
item code to get the new short link.

If you use Firefox, you can go one better. Edit the bookmark, change
Location to http://www.screwfix.com/prods/%s and set Keyword to
something like "sf".

Now you can just type "sf 17359" into the address bar, and it will take
you directly to http://www.screwfix.com/prods/17359

Rich.

In Opera, click and hold at the end of the prod number, drag the cursor to
the left to select the truncated url, release, R-click - copy.
Although the entire url is selected as soon as you click on the address,
dragging selects only the part dragged across - no need to release the
button and click again.

Not always that easy I'm afraid SF often create tortuous links when
you've searched to get to the product eg:
http://www.screwfix.com/search.do;js...n.x=9&searchbu
tton.y=12&searchbutton=submit

For these I have to store the core link as a favourite. Nice idea with
the firefox shortcut prefix but that's not my favourite browser.
--
fred
BBC3, ITV2/3/4, channels going to the DOGs

On 28/09/09 19:54, fred wrote:

Not always that easy I'm afraid SF often create tortuous links when
you've searched to get to the product eg:
http://www.screwfix.com/search.do;js...n.x=9&searchbu
tton.y=12&searchbutton=submit

For these I have to store the core link as a favourite.

But they show a product number on the page, so you can still adapt it

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/17359

On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:54:02 +0100, fred wrote:

In article , PeterC
writes
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:16:50 +0100, Richard Skeen wrote:

fred wrote:
If you add something like http://www.screwfix.com/prods/17359 to your
browser favourites you can visit that link then paste in the desired
item code to get the new short link.

If you use Firefox, you can go one better. Edit the bookmark, change
Location to http://www.screwfix.com/prods/%s and set Keyword to
something like "sf".

Now you can just type "sf 17359" into the address bar, and it will take
you directly to http://www.screwfix.com/prods/17359

Rich.

In Opera, click and hold at the end of the prod number, drag the cursor to
the left to select the truncated url, release, R-click - copy.
Although the entire url is selected as soon as you click on the address,
dragging selects only the part dragged across - no need to release the
button and click again.

Not always that easy I'm afraid SF often create tortuous links when
you've searched to get to the product eg:
http://www.screwfix.com/search.do;js...n.x=9&searchbu
tton.y=12&searchbutton=submit

For these I have to store the core link as a favourite. Nice idea with
the firefox shortcut prefix but that's not my favourite browser.

That's a different beastie of course (and I hate the way that, on many
sites, the results of a search can't be used to find the section in which
the product is located).

This newsreader (40tude) has a 'spoiler' for long URLs so that they don't
wrap - your example above, which is broken, would be intact from 40tude.
--
Peter.
The head of a pin will hold more angels if
it's been flattened with an angel-grinder.

In article , Andy
Burns writes
On 28/09/09 19:54, fred wrote:

Not always that easy I'm afraid SF often create tortuous links when
you've searched to get to the product eg:
http://www.screwfix.com/search.do;js...W21UCSTHZOSFFI
?
_dyncharset=UTF-8&fh_search=17359&searchbutton.x=9&searchbu
tton.y=12&searchbutton=submit

For these I have to store the core link as a favourite.

But they show a product number on the page, so you can still adapt it

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/17359

Yep, I think that was the point of my tip :-D

Unless I'm missing something, you still have to store the core link:
http://www.screwfix.com/prods/ somewhere, pull it out and add the item
code manually.

Btw, just noticed that Toolstation's links are easier to handle as they
have the item code at the end and you can just cut the redundant
tracking information from the middle.

eg:
http://www.toolstation.com/shop/Taps.../sd2946/p76879


becomes:
http://www.toolstation.com/shop/p76879

--
fred
BBC3, ITV2/3/4, channels going to the DOGs

fred gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

Not always that easy I'm afraid SF often create tortuous links when
you've searched to get to the product eg:
http://www.screwfix.com/search.do;js...21UCSTHZOSFFI?
_dyncharset=UTF-8&fh_search=17359&searchbutton.x=9&searchbutton.y= 12&searchbutton=submit

For these I have to store the core link as a favourite.

But they show a product number on the page, so you can still adapt it

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/17359

Yep, I think that was the point of my tip :-D

Unless I'm missing something, you still have to store the core link:
http://www.screwfix.com/prods/ somewhere, pull it out and add the item
code manually.

Umm, if you try and link to the search result, you get a horrible
unwieldy URL, sure - but if you click on an individual item within a
search result, you get a longer URL that starts with that nice short /
prods/number

If you search for the product number, as the OP seems to have done
(&fh_search=17359), you get an unwieldy URL, sure - but even if you've
done that all you need to do is copy the link behind the "Share on
Facebook" button, then trim that back.

'course, you could always go through your order history and click on the
product name, if that's why you're trying to find it but know the product
number... (and I can't think of many other reasons why you'd be searching
by number alone)

In article , Adrian
writes
fred gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

Unless I'm missing something, you still have to store the core link:
http://www.screwfix.com/prods/ somewhere, pull it out and add the item
code manually.

Umm, if you try and link to the search result, you get a horrible
unwieldy URL, sure - but if you click on an individual item within a
search result, you get a longer URL that starts with that nice short /
prods/number

If you search for the product number, as the OP seems to have done
(&fh_search=17359), you get an unwieldy URL, sure - but even if you've
done that all you need to do is copy the link behind the "Share on
Facebook" button, then trim that back.

'course, you could always go through your order history and click on the
product name, if that's why you're trying to find it but know the product
number... (and I can't think of many other reasons why you'd be searching
by number alone)

I am the op btw and know how to post sensible links to SF and TS
products. The purpose of my tip was to make it easier for others to post
brief and purposeful links to same rather than the tortuous ones that
are sometimes posted, thasall :-)

The link behind share on facebook doesn't seem to be prunable to a
sensible one.

For me, opening the core link I posted http://www.screwfix.com/prods/
and pasting the item code on the end seems the easiest option.
--
fred
BBC3, ITV2/3/4, channels going to the DOGs

On 25 Sep, 09:58, fred wrote:
In case anyone is interested, Screwfix parts can be linked to directly
using the form:

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/item code

Even better, link to the part description at the Toolstation site, and
you've a hope the trade counter might actually have some in stock!

(Haven't bought anything from Screwfix in months. Tried to.)

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember PeterC
saying something like:

The head of a pin will hold more angels if
it's been flattened with an angel-grinder.

car body filler will help to keep them there!

and WD40 to make their wings shiny.

And Hammerite to give them a lovely finish.